Pin on footrest?

offcamber

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I needed to replace the footrest on the left side of the bike as the result of a drop. Going through the parts list there is only a pin ( bolt) on the bottom of the left footrest. I was wondering why they put it on only the left side? Whats the purpose? Part #23 in the diagram.

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The hero blob is to warn you that you are leaning over rather heroically. If you lean any further then the foot pedal on the centre stand is likely to hit the floor and bring you off the bike. It's kind of an audible early warning.
 

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Yeeah, 'cuz you definitely do not want to touch down with the center stand. Hey, tallpaul, does your bike have the blob? Since it doesn't come with a center stand.
 

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Hero blob is definitely only present on the left hand side. The hole under the footrest on the right has no thread and is blanked off. Likely due to reasons already mentioned, to help avoid the centrestand grounding. It works too, mines touched down a few times and it certainly makes you lift up a tad.

mines a Gen 1 bike.
 

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The right side footpeg is likely a mirror image CAD drawing, so includes the cast in dimple. It's not as necessary since there is more lean angle on the right side due to the lack of pokey outey bits, but you could drill and tap the right footpeg and install the peg feeler/hero blob if you wanted to.
 

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This has been the subject of threads back to the intro of the bike with all sorts of speculation.
 

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The right side footpeg is likely a mirror image CAD drawing, so includes the cast in dimple. It's not as necessary since there is more lean angle on the right side due to the lack of pokey outey bits, but you could drill and tap the right footpeg and install the peg feeler/hero blob if you wanted to.
It's great to see a plausible explanation for a single "feeler". Drill and tap was exactly what I did to the right side peg. The asymmetry and ignorance wouldn't leave me alone, LOL.
 

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I knew it was "curb Feeler" but really didn't understand why it was only on one side. I guess after 8 years I never realized the bike had less lean angle on the left as opposed to the right.
 

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Coming off the FJR, I never felt the need to ride the S10 at lean angles that would drag pegs. With the custom suspension on the FJR, if I was dragging peg feelers, that was my wake up call to step it down a notch.

One time I remember on the Oregon coast heading down to Nehalem, Hwy 53 from Hwy 26 over to Hwy 101 with a few friends, they stopped to look at some deer, I kept going. I knew they would catch up at the 101 junction and there are really no turn offs to accidentally take, so I was on my own and enjoying a beautiful empty road and early morning run. Came into some S turns and holy cow, dragged the left peg, dragged the right peg, dragged the left peg again! WTF?... Then I realized I was doing 60 thru 25 mph marked corners! Yeah, a little too hot for a public road. I backed it down a couple notches the rest of the way to the coast. (It straitens out a bit after that set of corners anyway, but you never know what's coming the other way. Never mind the deer potential.
 

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Coming off the FJR, I never felt the need to ride the S10 at lean angles that would drag pegs....
I run out of tire before I touch anything on the Tenere. Likely due to having the preload cranked up for my fat ass. I had the pleasure to ride the FJR on an actual track. I was amazed at well it handled at speed, and in the corners for such a heavy bike. The FJR was only slightly slower in the straight than the Concours 14, and more stable in the corners than the RT1200, and ST1300. But yeah, they're all capable of speeds that have no place regular streets.
 
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